Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes

Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes is an album by The Music Tapes

The Music Tapes

The Music Tapes is an experimental pop music project of Elephant 6 member Julian Koster, also of Neutral Milk Hotel, and the earlier Chocolate U.S.A....

, a project consisting mainly of Neutral Milk Hotel's

Neutral Milk Hotel

Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band formed by singer, guitarist and songwriter Jeff Mangum in the early 1990s. The band was noted for its experimental sound, obscure lyrics and eclectic instrumentation....

Julian Koster

Julian Koster is an American underground musician and storyteller. A member of the Elephant 6 Collective, he is the leader of The Music Tapes, and a former member of Neutral Milk Hotel and Chocolate USA. He is also an influential and long time performer on the singing or Musical Saw...

, released in 2008 by Merge Records

Merge Records

Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as a way to release music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expanded to include artists from around the world and records...

. Koster spent nine years recording the album using mainly antique hardware and such as a 1895 Edison wax cylinder recorder

Phonograph cylinder

Phonograph cylinders were the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound. Commonly known simply as "records" in their era of greatest popularity , these cylinder shaped objects had an audio recording engraved on the outside surface which could be reproduced when the cylinder was...

, a 1940's wire recorder, a "state of the art hard drive", and reel to reel tape recorder

Tape recorder

An audio tape recorder, tape deck, reel-to-reel tape deck, cassette deck or tape machine is an audio storage device that records and plays back sounds, including articulated voices, usually using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage...

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Track listing

"Saw Pingpong And Orchestra" – 1:23
"Schedrevka" – 0:54
"Freeing Song For Reindeer" – 2:59
"Majesty" – 2:44
"Nimbus Stratus Cirrus (Mr.Piano’s Majestic Haircut)" – 2:45
"Freeing Song By Reindeer" – 3:13
"Tornado Longing For Freedom" – 3:57
"Song For Oceans Falling" – 6:04
"Kolyada #1" – 0:53
"The Minister Of Longitude" – 4:46
"Manifest Destiny" – 3:37
"Kolyada #2" – 1:00
"Cumulonimbus (Magnetic Tape For Clouds)" – 4:47
"Julian And Grandpa" – 0:31
"In An Ice Palace" – 3:39

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